Tag: ATA conference

This is the title of my presentation proposal for ATA58, the yearly conference of the American Translators Association (ATA), which will take place in Washington DC from October 25th to October 28th. The proposal was accepted and my presentation is preliminarily scheduled for Friday afternoon, October 27th, in the science and technology track. I became…

Grannies, Freds, and LSD – A Non-Pedestrian Introduction to Bicycles is the title of my 2nd talk at the upcoming 55th conference of the American Translators Association in Chicago. Information on my other talk on localization can be found here. Abstract: The bicycle market is a 6-billion-dollar industry in the US alone, and valued at…

I’m happy to announce that both of my talk proposals for the conference of the American Translators Association (ATA) in Chicago were accepted. I’ll be talking about “Grannies, Freds, and LSD – A Non-Pedestrian Introduction to Bicycles” in the Science and Technology track, and about “Software Localization Quality Assurance from a Tester’s Perspective” in the…

After CERN announced on July 4th, 2012, that a new particle had been discovered, the media were filled with headlines such as: “Physicists find elusive particles seen as key to universe”, “… the holy grail of physics”, “‘God Particle’ discovered”, “Is the Higgs boson the first step to a ‘Star Trek’ transporter?”, “Higgs boson find…